RPC Online Feature Coin – Among the Finest Known

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SELEUCIS and PIERIA, Antioch. Commodus. As Caesar, AD 166-177. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 13.36 g, 6h). Struck under Marcus Aurelius, AD 175-177. KOMMOΔΩ KAI CЄB VIΩ, bare head left, set upon eagle standing left, head right, with wings displayed / [ΓЄPMANIK] CAPMAT, Tyche seated right on rocky outcropping, holding grain ears in right hand; [above, ram leaping right, head left]; below, half-length figure of river-god Orontes swimming right, head left. McAlee 626; RPC IV Online 7163.6 (this coin); Prieur 167. Lightly toned with iridescence, some luster, a few minor marks, reverse off center. Good VF. Very rare, only six recorded in RPC.